Foundry · 3 weeks ago
Software Engineer, Creative Workflows
United States
Full-time
Remote
Mid LevelFoundry is a company focused on integrating generative AI into creative production workflows. The Software Engineer for Creative Workflows will be responsible for developing custom nodes and widgets that enhance the usability of Griptape Nodes and Griptape Reactor, ensuring that the tools meet the needs of artists in film, TV, and gaming production.
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Responsibilities
Ship what artists actually need. Build the custom nodes, custom widgets, reference workflows, and example libraries that show what Griptape Nodes and Griptape Reactor can do for real production work. Imperfect-but-running beats theoretical-and-elegant — we'll iterate from there
Turn asks into things. Take requests, hypotheticals, and napkin sketches from artists and studios and turn them into working code — fast enough to keep momentum, clear enough that another engineer can pick it up and harden it
Be the artist in the code review. Participate in code reviews with the artist's experience as your lens. Flag the moments where the rest of engineering is about to ship something that will make a user stop, scroll, swear, or alt-tab away. That's the value you bring to those reviews
Pioneer new AI dev patterns. Show the team new ways to incorporate AI into how we build — agentic workflows, prompt patterns, evaluation loops. And dogfood the products: use Griptape Nodes inside our own dev processes, including agentic Nodes workflows we call as part of how we ship
Expand the team's empathy and intuition by example. Customer empathy and product intuition are skills the team is consciously building. You model what they look like in practice, and help everyone else get better at them
Hold the quality bar. Polish what ships externally, ship things artists actually use, and stay close to Customer Support when something hits friction in the field. Scrappy in the right places is fine; anything that breaks someone's flow is not
Qualification
Required
A real background in creative production — film/TV VFX, animation, games, motion design, advertising, virtual production, or adjacent. You've shipped things artists actually used
Confident Python. Comfortable designing and building features end-to-end. You ship things that work, even when they'd benefit from a refactor, and you partner well with engineers who'll bring polish where it matters
Fluency in at least one major DCC ecosystem — Nuke, Maya, Houdini, Blender, Unreal, After Effects, or equivalent — including its scripting layer (Python, MEL, MaxScript, etc.)
Working knowledge of generative AI fundamentals — diffusion models, LLMs and agents, prompt engineering, evaluation. Enough to use these tools well and improve them, not necessarily train them
A track record of using AI tools (Claude, Cursor, Copilot, agent frameworks) to accelerate your own work, plus a knack for spotting new patterns others on the team can adopt
Empathy and intuition for artist workflows that you can articulate, not just feel. You can explain why something will break flow before it ships
Comfort working alongside engineers who are deeper on the CS side, and bringing them along on what artists actually need
Preferred
Shipped credits in film, episodic, games, or commercials — a credit list is welcome
Background as a TD, technical animator, technical artist, pipeline TD, technical designer, or creative technologist
Experience building tools, custom nodes, or pipeline extensions inside a studio environment
Familiarity with media formats — OpenEXR, USD, ACES, OpenColorIO, EDL/AAF/OTIO, common containers and codecs
A side practice — creative coding, generative art, shader work, agentic experiments — that signals curiosity beyond the day job
Public-facing chops: published workflows, tutorials, conference talks, or a presence in the creative-tech community
A degree in computer science
Company
Foundry
Foundry develops creative software for the Digital Design, Media and Entertainment industries.
Founded in 1996
201-500 employees
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The Carlyle Group
2019-03-19Acquired
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